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Men of Letters. Much the same class-conscious humiliation caused Shaw to leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that...
When the pilot is lying down, his blood tends to stay put because most of his body is on the same level. Air Force doctors have proved that a pilot in the prone position bed can take from ten to twelve "Gs"* of centrifugal force without blacking out. Four and...
82. Aerosporin, newly discovered by the research team of Dr. George Brownlee at Wellcome Laboratory, England, is: 1. A new fertilizes which hastens plant growth. 2. A new antibiotic which proved in tests many times more effective than streptomycin. 3. A new drug which helps keep pilots of supersonic planes...
Then the Meadmen issued a final challenge: a subpoena which May could only ignore at the risk of blacking out his already dark-brown reputation.
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even...